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BEIJING (AP) -- Her head was ringing from the blows. Once, twice, three times, her husband slammed her face into the living room floor....

BEIJING (AP) -- Her head was ringing from the blows. Once, twice, three times, her husband slammed her face into the living room floor....

BEIJING (AP) -- Her head was ringing from the blows. Once, twice, three times, her husband slammed her face into the living room floor....

PARIS (AP) -- Like Barack Obama, Nicolas Sarkozy swept to power on a wave of hope for change. Sarkozy's wave crashed on the global financial crisis and his own failings. On Sunday, the French leader faces a tough fight against nine challengers in presidential elections awash in fear and anger....

BANGKOK (AP) -- The increasingly enthusiastic love affair between Myanmar and the West is about to heat up further with the European Union's expected announcement that it is easing sanctions on the Southeast Asian nation. But not everyone is caught up in the euphoria....

ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Emergency workers with flashlights searched the smoldering wreckage of a passenger jet carrying 127 people that crashed into a muddy wheat field Friday while trying to land in a violent thunderstorm at Islamabad's main airport....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The International Monetary Fund says it has raised more than $430 billion in an effort to assure finance markets that it has sufficient firepower to handle any new problems from Europe's prolonged debt crisis....

MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) -- Anti-government protesters flooded a main highway in a march stretching for miles and security forces fired tear gas in breakaway clashes Friday as Bahrain's leaders struggled to contain opposition anger while under the world's spotlight as the island nation hosts the Formula One Grand Prix....

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- Treated to a hero's welcome, Turkey's prime minister met Syrian refugees Sunday for the first time since his country opened its doors to tens of thousands of Syrians fleeing their government's crackdown on a popular uprising....

XALITZINTLA, Mexico (AP) -- A 17,886-foot (5,450-meter) volcano outside Mexico City exhaled dozens of towering plumes of ash and shot fragments of glowing rock down its slopes Friday morning, frightening the residents of surrounding villages with hours of low-pitched roaring not heard in a decade....

OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Norwegians who lost loved ones on Utoya island gasped and sobbed Friday as far-right fanatic Anders Behring Breivik described in harrowing detail how he gunned down teenagers as they fled in panic or froze before him, paralyzed with fear....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- History is littered with murderers inspired by art: Charles Manson believed the lyrics to the Beatles' "Helter Skelter" were a prophecy that ignited a killing spree. John Lennon assassin Mark David Chapman was obsessed with the book "Catcher in the Rye."...

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) -- Sudan said Friday its forces drove South Sudanese troops from a contested oil town near the countries' ill-defined border border while the south tried to put a good face on events, saying it was withdrawing....

ISLAMABAD (AP) -- A Pakistani passenger jet with 127 people on board crashed Friday as it was landing at an airport near Islamabad, officials said....

HUEJOTZINGO, Mexico (AP) -- The Popocatepetl volcano shot a heavy plume of ash into the sky southeast of Mexico's capital and spewed glowing rock from its crater at dawn on Friday....

MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) -- A prominent Bahraini rights activist was released on bail Monday more than three weeks after his arrest on charges linked to anti-government protests in the Gulf kingdom....

JERUSALEM (AP) -- The Conservative Jewish seminary in Israel has voted to allow gays and lesbians to become rabbis, overcoming years of opposition by many of its own leaders and setting up a new point of contention between the movement and Israel's Orthodox establishment....

BASRA, Iraq (AP) -- Iraq began loading crude oil Friday from a second offshore export terminal in the Persian Gulf, part of a major project to boost Iraq's income....

BEIJING (AP) -- A massive hacker attack has crippled an overseas website that has reported extensively on China's biggest political turmoil in years, underscoring the pivotal role the Internet has played in the unfolding scandal....

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) -- Responding to international pressure, South Sudan announced Friday it will withdraw its troops from the disputed oil town its forces took over last week, pulling back from offensive military action that pushed the south closer to all-out war with its northern neighbor, Sudan....